Tag: FOSSi

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Analog Bits Joins SiFive’s DesignShare Platform

Open silicon specialist SiFive has announced another win for its DesignShare platform with Analog Bits, provider of low-power mixed signal intellectual property, adding its precision clocking macros into the mix. Designed to make it simpler for start-ups to build custom silicon by bringing together as much of the IP required… Read More

RISC-V Shakti Project Targets Early 2018 Manufacturing

The creators of the Shakti Processor Project, which aims to build a RISC-V design capable of scaling from embedded to high-performance compute (HPC) tasks, have announced they are to begin chip manufacture in the first half of 2018. During a detailed interview with Factor Daily held at the… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Growth, FPGAs, Radio, and More

Microsemi has announced it is to help push RISC-V adoption through Mi-V, a new ecosystem which gives those developing on the open architecture full tier-one vendor support from the top down. “As a leader in RISC-V, we are pleased Microsemi is the first tier one vendor to build out a… Read More

SiFive adds Flex Logix eFPGAs to DesignShare

RISC-V pioneer SiFive has announced that Flex Logix is adding its EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to the DesignShare platform, adding yet another string to the ecosystem’s system-on-chip (SoC) design bow. “There is a critical need in the chip industry to provide a faster, cheaper way for innovative companies… Read More

OSDDI: Clifford Wolf, Yosys

Over the last couple of years the maker movement has seen a significant growth in interest in FPGA development, with a great deal of activity being focused around the Lattice iCE40 platform, thanks in no small part to the availability of a fully open source FPGA toolchain to use with… Read More

FireSim Brings RISC-V to Amazon’s AWS Platform

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley RISE Lab have released FireSim, an open-source cloud instance of RocketChip RISC-V processors running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. “FPGA-accelerated hardware simulation is by no means a new concept. However, previous attempts to use FPGAs for simulation have been fraught… Read More

Microsemi Launches Mi-V Ecosystem

CRU: LMS8001 Companion, Security Alerts, 14nm RISC-V, and More

The LimeSDR open-source software defined radio (SDR) project has received a boost, quite literally, in the form of the frequency-extending LMS8001 Companion Board, announced as part of the LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign. Built around a Lime Microsystems LMS8001 frequency shifter chip, the Companion Board allows any LimeSDR module –… Read More

CRU: Floods, RISC-V for Linux, Iron-Scopes and More

AB Open has announced a partnership with Flood Network to bring a series of Internet of Things (IoT) river level sensors to the Upper Calder Valley, providing valuable flood warning data for the region. Joining the users of the Things Calderdale LoRaWAN network, the flood sensors are to… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Growth, Job Vacancies, and More

Cambridge-based semiconductor specialist UltraSoC has announced its expansion into Bristol, and it’s giving credit for its recent growth to an explosion of interest in the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). “There’s a perfect storm of factors revolutionising the technology business from top to bottom,” says Rupert Baines, UltraSoC’s… Read More

CRU: LoRa Bat Watching, RISC-V Updates, Neural Networks, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has written up a project to create a bat detector with LoRaWAN connectivity, transmitting data on bat call measurements via The Things Network using MQTT. “When ODI Leeds recently said that they were interested in LoRaWAN-enabled bat detection, we thought, ‘What a fun idea, let’s… Read More

OSDDI: lowRISC, Alex Bradbury

lowRISC is a fantastic initiative to build a fully open source, Linux-capable, 64-bit RISC-V based system-on-chip. Not only this, but a SoC design with additional interesting features such as programmable I/O — think along the lines of XMOS devices — and tagged memory. Read More